It begins with a classic Blackhawks opening,but after that,a little something from the classic relationship of Ch 44 and the Sox!Enjoy!!!

Sox

06-14-2009, 05:36 PM

I remember those Sox uniforms.........thank goodness they don't wear them anymore and hopefully forever after that. :putitontheboard

nug0hs

06-14-2009, 06:02 PM

Ch. 44 has been Nickelodeon for as long as I can remember :redface:

JimmyJoe

06-14-2009, 06:09 PM

Watching that makes me want to go to Ben's Auto Sales at 59th & Western and buy a car.

RadioheadRocks

06-14-2009, 06:32 PM

Watching that makes me want to go to Ben's Auto Sales at 59th & Western and buy a car.

Followed by the "we buy pallets!" commercial :D:

Rohan

06-14-2009, 07:55 PM

Ch. 44 has been Nickelodeon for as long as I can remember :redface:

Country Music Television for me :rolleyes:

eastchicagosoxfan

06-14-2009, 08:07 PM

For some reason I have this urge to go to One Stop and pick up a 30 pound box of ribs........

SOXfnNlansing

06-14-2009, 08:37 PM

After watching that it makes me feel a kinship with the other posters on here (that are my age and older) that have been through the good and bad (much badness) over the past 30 years. I do remember watching those commercials and those bad teams, but in 2005 we finally made it to the promised land. I still can't believe we won the pennant let alone the World Championship! Great memories. Glad to see those channel 44 moments again. (...and I remember trying to fine tune those squiggly lines AO after dark too!)

Bucky F. Dent

06-14-2009, 09:29 PM

Man, that music from the sox intro gave me flashbacks....."Yeah!"

Brian26

06-14-2009, 10:09 PM

How bad did the balding Gordie Howe look in the green Whalers jersey with his entire name spelled out on the back?

Also, was that Mary Shane doing commentary with Harry?

BleacherBandit

06-14-2009, 11:18 PM

How bad did the balding Gordie Howe look in the green Whalers jersey with his entire name spelled out on the back?

Also, was that Mary Shane doing commentary with Harry?

That was hillarious. Don't know why they did that. I'd love to spell out my whole name on a jersey.

Nellie_Fox

06-15-2009, 02:01 AM

That was hillarious. Don't know why they did that. I'd love to spell out my whole name on a jersey.Because his two sons were also on the team. Since they were Mark and Marty, just the first initial wouldn't work for them; I guess they figured it was best to put the full name on all three sweaters.

jamokes

06-15-2009, 05:42 AM

I want DAN MULLALLY for the pregame show!!

veeter

06-15-2009, 11:52 AM

How bad did the balding Gordie Howe look in the green Whalers jersey with his entire name spelled out on the back?

Also, was that Mary Shane doing commentary with Harry?He looked like an accountant playing hockey.

TommyJohn

06-15-2009, 02:30 PM

I remember that theme music well, and when I was a kid, I thought it was so cool I recorded it because I just had to have it. Now it just looks and sounds so dang cheesy.

Law11

06-15-2009, 03:45 PM

That ch 44 sox music is the song "popcorn" I remember when Nancy would play it all the time at the ol park.. good stuff.

Railsplitter

06-16-2009, 05:27 PM

WSNS now with Univision.

Sox-on-TV44

06-17-2009, 11:08 AM

That ch 44 sox music is the song "popcorn" I remember when Nancy would play it all the time at the ol park.. good stuff.
Are you sure that's the song?It didn't sound like it.

WSNS now with Univision -Railsplitter
They're with Telemundo.But what differences does that make?

kba

06-17-2009, 11:42 AM

I remember that theme music well, and when I was a kid, I thought it was so cool I recorded it because I just had to have it. Now it just looks and sounds so dang cheesy.

That techno-rock theme and the computerized graphics DID seem cool at the time. Especially because WGN was still starting Cub telecasts with a sleepy montage of year-old game highlights and some 1960's-era production music.

Channel 44 must have used that Sox opening for four or five years. I also remember an earlier opening that had an equally long run. It had Chuck Tanner in it, and they were still using it a couple years after he got fired.

Lip Man 1

06-17-2009, 11:53 AM

The White Sox intro music is NOT, repeat NOT, Popcorn by the group Hot Butter which came out in 1972.

Lip

jdm2662

06-17-2009, 12:39 PM

How long where the Hawks on channel 44? What was the last year they were on it. I faintly remember my father watching the Hawks before we got cable.

BeeBeeRichard

06-17-2009, 12:43 PM

Channel 44 must have used that Sox opening for four or five years. I also remember an earlier opening that had an equally long run. It had Chuck Tanner in it, and they were still using it a couple years after he got fired.

Not sure if it's the same one, but the intro that I recall from that era featured a drum solo track and one of the main video clips was a stylized outline of Wilbur Wood pitching out of the windup.

RadioheadRocks

06-19-2009, 08:30 PM

The White Sox intro music is NOT, repeat NOT, Popcorn by the group Hot Butter which came out in 1972.

And thank goodness for that! Seriously that song needs to STAY in 1972!!!